KAPRE
K A P R E mimi illenberger mapa While doing research for his dissertation on folk healing, a former teacher stumbled on several strange tales involving supernatural beings, prompting him to suggest to his peers in graduate school that perhaps the university “should look into the feasibility of offering courses in parapsychology so that students will have enlightened information on phenomena which science is still hesitant to certify as worthy of investigation.” This particular tale I wish to share with my readers today began in a university campus more than a decade ago and simply refused to die down. As the years rolled by , the stories involving the creature even became more scary as more people came forward to add their own experience to it; the teacher felt the case was indeed worthy of investigation. This is the story of a kapre ( the name used in Philippine folk lore for the mythical tree-sitting demon) who inhabited a school building down south. Right sm